Meliora

mel-ee-OR-ah; mel-YOHR-ah

Latin, Cornish

"better; honey"

Meliora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1065 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Meliora

• 1065 Nameberry 2026

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The name Meliora in Pop Culture

• Mellyora character in Victoria Holt's novel "The Legend of the Seventh Virgin" set in Cornwall, counterpart to the heroine, Kerensa. ("I called her Melly to myself, just to rob her of a little dignity. Mellyora! It sounded so pretty when people said it. I have never heard that Mellyora meant anything.")
• Melliora heroine,victim ("Damp not the fires thou hast rais'd with seeming Coiness! I know thou art mine...By Heaven, cry'd he: I will this Night be Master of my Wishes, no Matter what to Morrow may bring forth!") in Eliza Haywood's novel "Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry" (1719,20)
• Meliora Motto for the University of Rochester, translated as "ever better"
• Meliora Name of the third album by the Swedish band Ghost